BRITON’S returning from ISIS territory “do not justify prosecution” according to a UK terror watchdog, it has been revealed.

Mr Hill revealed that hundreds of Briton’s have already returned home but have not been charged

The Government’s new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Max Hill QC, has stated that authorities have decided not to charge returnees from Syria and Iraq.

He said: “We are told we do have a significant number already back in this country who have previously gone to Iraq and Syria.

“That means that the authorities have looked at them and looked at them hard and have decided that they do not justify prosecution and really we should be looking at reintegration and moving away from any notion that we are going to lose a generation from this travel.

“It’s not a decision that MI5 and others will have taken lightly. They, I am sure, will have looked intensely at each individual on return.

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“But they have left space, and I think they are right to do so, for those who travelled, but who travelled out of a sense of naivety, possibly with some brainwashing along the way, possibly in their mid-teens and who return in a sense of utter disillusionment.

“We have to leave space for those individuals to be diverted away from the criminal courts.”

Mr Hill revealed that hundreds of Briton’s have already returned home but have not been charged.

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An estimated 850 people have reportedly travelled to Syria in the last 6 years with 120 supposedly killed in fighting.

Half of those remaining are said to have already returned to the UK.

Counterterrorism sources have spoken with The Times and reportedly confirmed that “not a huge proportion” of Briton’s have faced prosecutions after having returned.

However, some returnees have been hit with security restrictions by the watchdog with curfews, tags and monitoring.

The defence of those coming back to the UK from ISIS territory was backed by the former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6, Richard Barrett.

He stated: “Many of them went to join something, join something new, something that looked bright and attractive and satisfied some of the needs in their lives and probably found that didn’t exist out there and so came back highly disillusioned.

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“Also someone going off to join the Islamic state is not likely initially to be somebody going off to be a domestic terrorist, they seem to me to be two different motivations.”

The dismissal of prosecutions comes after the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, noted the UK is currently experiencing a “dramatic upshift” in terrorist threats.

He declared: “That threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.

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An estimated 850 people have reportedly travelled to Syria in the last 6 years

“It’s at the highest tempo I have seen in my 34-year career. Today there is more terrorist activity, coming at us more quickly, and it can be harder to detect.”

It was recently revealed that almost £800million has been spent by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) fighting Islamic State over the past three years.

This includes £469.4million in the last financial year, according to figures released to Parliament.

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120 Briton's have supposedly been killed fighting in Syria

The figures emerged as Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the UK would continue striking terrorist targets until Islamic State had been driven out of Iraq and Syria.

An MoD spokesman said: "Since October 2014 the UK has conducted over 1,600 air strikes against Daesh in Iraq and Syria and trained over 57,000 members of the Iraqi and peshmerga security forces, as well as providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to the coalition.

"The total net cost of operations against Daesh in Iraq and Syria is £779million, which includes operational allowances, accommodation and feeding support for the thousands of personnel who have served on Operation Shader, as well as costs associated with air operations including fuel and precision-guided munitions."